For Daughters and Mothers

Beyond the Oedipus Complex: Mothers and Daughters

Women are often critical of their mothers and identify with their most negative characteristics. Simultaneously, it has also been noted that strong bonds are often established between mothers and daughters. When traditional Oedipal theory is applied to women, it does not take into account sufficiently either the prevalence of daughters’ critical perceptions of their mothers or the strong connec...

Cayetano González: Mothers, daughters, stemness, and cancer

If you've come across a diver wearing a dry suit in the sea south of Spain, you may have run into Cayetano González. A dry suit might be overkill for the warm waters of the Mediterranean, but González uses one because he fi rst learned to dive in the cold, dark lakes around Heidelberg, Germany, where a dry suit is a necessity. While he was exploring the depths of European lakes, González and hi...

Mothers and daughters: intergenerational patterns of reproduction.

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to assess intergenerational mother-daughter patterns of reproduction. METHODS In 1966, 12 055 pregnant women in Northern Finland, representing 96% of all births in the region, responded to a questionnaire in mid-gestation. In 1997-98, the 31-year-old daughters born from those pregnancies were sent a questionnaire and 4523 (80%) responded. Reproductio...

Transcriptional Memory: Mothers SET the Table for Daughters

Eukaryotic gene transcription within individual cells of a population is often associated with heterogeneous pulses of gene activity. A recent study, however, shows that mothers and their daughters share similar transcriptional frequencies, and inheritance of mother's transcriptional tendencies requires methylation of histone H3 by a Set1 methyltransferase.

Mothers and Daughters: Interpersonal Approaches to Body and Dieting